But by and by a great occasion arisesa revival which sweeps the country, a reunion of two long-divided parties, an Ecumenical Council, a Chinese persecutionand suddenly there arises before the mind's eye a glimpse of that Church which girdles the world, whose emissaries are in every country, whose voices speak in every tongue.

As the great Ecumenical Council was convened for missionary progress, so the times are now ripe for the assembling of a historic Theological Council, to revise and restate, not one denominational catechism, but the creed of Christendom; to provide a new literary expression of the Christian faith.

With reference to the rumor, the Pope stated in the Ecumenical Council that "the Bute was on the right leg at last, and that he would launch his thunder against him who should dare that Bute displace.

Constantine the Great caused Christianity to be recognized throughout the Roman Empire, and in 325 convened the first ecumenical or general Council at Nicaea [Nice], when Arius, excommunicated for heresy by a provincial synod at Alexandria in 321, defended his views, but was condemned.

Adj. general, generic, collective; broad, comprehensive, sweeping; encyclopedical^, widespread &c (dispersed) 73. universal; catholic, catholical^; common, worldwide; ecumenical, oecumenical^; transcendental; prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting; all over, covered with.

From an ecumenical point of view, Spalato is yet more.

I'm not a wilful heretic, and I accept absolutely therefore that these decrees, as emanating from an ecumenical council, are infallibly true.

I am sentenced, that is to say, as an obstinate hereticas refusing to submit to the plain meaning of an ecumenical decree.

The twenty ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church.

The twenty ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church.

The sacrament of reunion, a study of ecumenical Christianity.

An ecumenical series.

Toward a united church: three decades of ecumenical Christianity.

Toward a reborn church; a review and forecast of the ecumenical movement.

The twenty ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church.

The twenty ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church.

The sacrament of reunion, a study of ecumenical Christianity.

An ecumenical series.

Toward a united church: three decades of ecumenical Christianity.

Toward a reborn church; a review and forecast of the ecumenical movement.

ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, an ecclesiastical council representative, or accepted as representative, of the Church universal or Catholic.

LATERAN, the palace, originally a basilica, built by Constantine in Rome about 333, the residence of the Pope till 1308, and from which no fewer than five Ecumenical Councils receive their names as held in it, namely, those of 1123, 1139, 1179, 1215, and 1518; the church, called the Church of St. John Lateran, is the cathedral church of Rome.

During the Ecumenical Council of Florence, Giovanni de' Medici, fired with enthusiasm for the study of Platonic philosophy, brilliantly expounded by the learned Greek, Gemisto, conceived the plan of promoting the revival of classical learning by the formation of an academy, in imitation of that founded by the immortal Plato.

To such men, a satire of Juvenal was more precious than an epistle of St. Paul; dogma, they demolished with epigrams, the philosophy of the schoolmen was a standing joke, and a passage from Plato or Horace outweighed the definitions of an Ecumenical Council.